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Writing about "The Neighborhood" Little Italy in Meatballs & Stickball Two Italian-American guys are on Mulberry Street in New York City, near the intersection of what they called Jersey Alley. They have bats in their hands, ready to swing them. They are not muggers. They are old guys in their late sixties and early seventies. They are both writers by avocation. And they lived and played there a half-century ago. The game they played was stickball, and they were hitting a few balls on the street where they played. I was one of them. Stickball is also one of the themes of the anthology, Meatballs & Stickball: Growing up in "The Neighborhood" Little Italy, which...

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